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merav tg asked on April 20, 2016 16:57

Hey,

If you only set a search index for the smart search and do not set any ORDER BY definition, what is the logic that Kentico sort the products by?

thank you

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Chetan Sharma answered on April 20, 2016 17:14

By default Kentico search results ordering happens on SCORE. You can understand this by the confidence in the search result. Like Google.

Thanks Chetan

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merav tg answered on April 20, 2016 17:51

and the score logic is? how many time the searched word appear in the page?

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Chetan Sharma answered on April 20, 2016 18:05

Hi Merav,

I'm glad you are interested in this. It's based on A lot many factors. One of which you mentioned along with position of appearance, size of page. It makes used of TF-IDF and vector space model.

You may read here. Lucene Scoring

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David te Kloese answered on April 20, 2016 18:08

Hi,

Kentico uses the Lucene.Net search engine, exact scoring calculation is complex. You can find some info here:

Apache Lucene.

Some things to remember that influencing score:

number of occurences of the term
if its in the document name or in the content, meta data
if its just mentioned once in a lot of content or multiple times in short content

If you go to the search preview of your index you can see the results from the default transformation:

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Hope this helps you and your customer understand.

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